By Josh: I’m a baseball fanatic and by definition that means that numbers are important to me. Whether its 500 homeruns, 3,000 hits, or having a .400 batting average, numbers are significant in the game of baseball. That is why I’m excited to celebrate the 300th post in the history of the 9 Inning Know…
By Josh: At any level of baseball, winning a championship is an amazing feeling and accomplishment. Winning a championship on your home field, in front of your own fans is almost magical. On Monday night the Corvallis Knights won the West Coast League Championship on their home field, in front of their home fans. All…
By Josh: When you go to a baseball game, you go to watch the players. You watch the way the pitcher winds up, and even the batting stance of each batter. Rarely do you pay attention to the umpires unless they make a bad call, or a call you disagree with, even though they are…
9 Inning Know It All Empire part 1 9 Inning Know It All Empire part 2 By Josh: Where We Are Now I can’t believe just how active the 9 Inning Empire is at this point. Along with Kelly, Norm and myself the empire has another regular writer in Trevor Winsor. Trevor played college baseball…
Continued from 9 Inning Know It All Empire Part 1 of 3 By Josh: The Team I knew that people would get tired of just reading my thoughts and opinions so I had to branch out and find others with the same passion and knowledge for baseball that I had. I interacted with Norm Ordaz…
By Josh: The Beginning Most people don’t realize the truth behind what sparked me to start the 9 Inning Empire. Although I love baseball and do enjoy writing my thoughts, the real reason was to prove that I could effectively do social media and blogging better than another individual. This person’s level of ineffectiveness and…
Let’s be honest. No one wants to be around someone with a cold or the flu because if they are contagious you don’t want to get what they have. The same goes for teams that lose all of the time. Yes, there are always those diehard fans that will sit in the room with the…
By Josh: Growing up a baseball fan I would often dream of having my name announced on the PA system of a Major League ball park. This is pretty common for most young boys who play the game of baseball. The dream of being announced often comes in an imaginary game 7 of the World…
As the summer comes closer the 9 Inning crew has been brainstorming how we want to approach the next couple of months. We’ve talked about what teams we want to focus on, what topics we want to discuss on the radio show, and we have discussed other ways we can bring baseball to as many…
I have always seen sports as a way for both athletes and fans alike to escape the problems of the world even just for a few hours to smile, cheer, and think about the better things in life. I think it is for this reason the Boston Marathon bombings have impacted me a little more…
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